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PWI twofer! OPI: Vant to Bite my Neck? and SOPI: Beam Me Up Hottie!

I did not choose to put these polishes together because they are both complete sentences with punctuation. I would have, but I only just noticed. Dumb sentences, sure, but better than [grabs a bottle at random] “Smush”.

This first one I kinda already knew would disappoint. It’s from the same collection as Eurso Euro (have I blithered on enough about that one yet?), and when I got EE in all its indigo perfection, I hoped the purple would be equally glorious. (Spoiler: it isn’t)

OPI Vant to Bite my Neck?:

These are both pretty color-accurate, because your human meat eyeball with its high dynamic range can see a lot more color depth at once. So the way-overexposed shot on the right that shows the purpliness is, in human eyeball terms, just another part of this polish’s “depth of color”. Stupid excellent meat eyeball.

Look, aubergine is a lovely color that is mostly black. Seriously, when your canvases are 1cm2, this is just… black. In direct sunlight(well “sunlight”) it’s… black. (Black with an excellent, long-lasting creme formula, because OPI.)

With hints of eggplant.

So, since I don’t actually really like this polish, I decided to try to spruce it up by doing something I know I dislike, which is adding a highly-contrasting glitter topper.

SOPI: Beam Me Up, Hottie!:

Left: what it actually looked like, which is, mysteriously polka-dotted nails. Right: They’re very holographic
polka dots! And I learned that a blurry picture actually captures the holo colors better. I learned this from
real bloggers with better cameras. Which I do not need one of. Because I don’t need another hobby.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. …no, no it didn’t. It seemed like something I could reach without dislodging this cat. So that’s like a good idea, kind of.

This is just a bottle full of silver holographic glitter hexes in a clear base. Seems like my kind of looking-futuristic thing, but the formula is such a total goddamned PITA. This is several layers, with much dabbing.*

So… all things being equal, total fail! I’ll probably keep Beam My Up Hottie! for use over silver, where its holographic awesomeness can blend and glitter distribution is less obvious. I kind of feel like McAubergine here is bound for a new home.

* (Basically what it sounds like – sort of “patting” the nail with the brush, pushing individual glitters (glits?**) around.)
** I am pretty sure an individual glitter is a glit